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Old   October 12, 2012, 02:33
Question heat transfer inside a tube
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To simulate the heat transfer for fluid flow in a tube, is a 3-D mesh required or would a 2-D mesh do?
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Old   October 12, 2012, 23:35
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To simulate the heat transfer for fluid flow in a tube, is a 3-D mesh required or would a 2-D mesh do?
If you have a simple circular pipe with uni-directional velocity profile, you can easily implement a 2-D geometry with "axis" B.C. type instead of a 3-D case.
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Old   October 13, 2012, 15:46
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it is also dependent to your b.c geometry ...
for example for conjugate heat transfer(conduction+convection) is SHOULD be 3.d since in 2.d there is not the b.c ''shell conduction'' in fluent.

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Old   October 13, 2012, 22:57
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If your flow is axisymmetric, then you can model the flow as 2 D
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